Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'
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Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
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I’m learning, Maia thought. They keep making mistakes and I keep getting stronger.At this rate, someday I may actually gain control over my life.
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I know my age is a little older and some people might say, 'hey this guy's an old guy'. But I'm learning every day. I don't feel like an old guy. I feel like I'm young. I feel like I'm in there just learning so much stuff. I'm just doing a whole lot more different things than I was before.
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The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.
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Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
